Mandrake

General information
First appearance	WarioWare: Touched! (2005)
Latest appearance	WarioWare: Get It Together! (2021)

Mandrake, named Nasty Garlic in its debut appearance, is a species of vegetable which appears in the WarioWare series. It first appears in WarioWare: Touched!.

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Physical description

A Mandrake is an uprooted light-yellow plant with bulb depicting a sour face, including puckered lips, and roots that make for its arms and legs. In most appearances, a Mandrake has three legs. A Mandrake is both based on and named for the real-world poisonous plant of the same name.

In WarioWare: Touched!, a Nasty Garlic instead has an entirely olive green body with pink-colored facial features. In Ashley's stage is a similar root-like creature with roots shaped like a body, and an annoyed expression with puckered lips on its bulb, but the bulb is yellow and its roots are brown. This would become the basis

In WarioWare series

WarioWare: Touched!

A Nasty Galrlic appears in Wario-Man's story. In the opening, Wario is feeling sick, so he goes to the fridge to try and eat some garlic in hopes of curing his illness. Wario accidentally grabs the Nasty Garlic, and although Wario notices this, he decides to eat the Nasty Garlic. The Nasty Garlic causes Wario's immune system to attack the Awful Viruses, and during this is a brief gameplay demo in which the player can tap the Awful Viruses to get the Wario Viruses to eat them. This somehow results in Wario transforming into Wario-Man.

After the player finishes Wario-Man's stage, the Nasty Garlic becomes available on the main menu, where it can be dragged to Wario to turn him into Wario-Man, allowing the latter's stage to be replayed. A bomb appears on the menu whenever Wario has been transformed into Wario-Man, who can turn back into Wario if the player drags the Nasty Garlic onto him. If the player drags the Nasty Garlic to any other character on the main menu, they become confused instead.

There is a root-like object with a similar appearance in the opening cutscene of Ashley's stage, and it is one of the four ingredients that the player has to drag into Ashley's pot.

WarioWare Gold

A Mandrake card, shown when losing a microgame in Potluck Gang in WarioWare Gold

In the Potluck Gang stage, Ashley has brought a similar supposed garlic for the potluck, but Red worriedly realizes it to be a mandrake root and warns that its cry can be fatal. As a prank, Spitz decides to cry like a mandrake, terrifying Red. While the microgame set is being played through and if the player fails at a microgame in the stage, the card onscreen shows a mandrake rather than one of the WarioWare, Inc. employees at the potluck.

A mandrake is featured in two souvenir minigames, Pumpkin Panic and Root Awakening.

WarioWare: Get It Together!

Mandrakes attacking Ashley's Mansion in WarioWare: Get It Together!

During Ashley's story several mandrakes invade Ashley's Mansion while she waits for dinner. When the Mandrakes attack Ashley, she turns them into food, and a majority of them are turned into donuts.

Mandrakes appear in two microgames, The Vampire Arose and Veggie Out!. Aside from this, a mandrake root appears as a Prezzy and in one of Pyoro's character gallery images.

Crossover appearances

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

In the English version, there is a Palutena's Guidance conversation in which it is stated that Wario eats Nasty Garlic to transform into Wario-Man when using his Final Smash of the same name. Wario actually eats a regular garlic, unlike in WarioWare: Touched!, but in the Japanese version, Palutena more accurately notes that the garlic is not the mandrake. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where Palutena's dialog was edited to replace an incorrect usage of Nasty Garlic with garlic.